William Moritz
Writing
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A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Home Movies 1971-81

Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking.
Abstract Cinema

A ceremonial healing film, with footage shot by William Moritz, Harry Frazier, Robert Curtis, Amy Halpern, Phil Stuart and FuDing Cheng, with additional camerawork by Pat O'Neill and Elfriede Fischinger. Music by Robert Curtis, Brian Eno and Tony Selvage. "I am fascinated by the theories of Italian Renaissance philosophers who maintained that a created image = a created event, and therefore all image-makers (and image exhibitors) are responsible for the karma of the subject matter in the pictures that create (or show); and furthermore, that various images have essentially detrimental or essentially salutary effects. The imagery is structured with an introductory sequence of hypnagogic, hypnogenic flashes, an invocation by the Three Graces of the Spirits of the Four Elements (Fire, Water, Earth and Air), and a holy ritual of Aether and ecstasy for the transmutation. Dedicated to the principle that everything exists all the time and always has and always will."
Slow Morning Rain
Piece for multiple 16mm projectors and a 35mm slide projector.
Branches

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Michael Brod's Whoever — In Transit

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Star Trick
An elegy for Robert Opel. Cal Valadez, Pat Turnbull and Michelle Jeanette dance in a spring garden. The fairies’ dance by Gétry, taken from Zemire Azores acts as an edenic music.
Elysian Fields
Outtakes of Indian war movies are edited to show how the media shapes our minds, feelings, and dreams.